Attachment 6- Ecology report prepared by Gondwana Ecology

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.      Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1
     1.1 Subject Land .................................................................................................................................. 1
     1.2 Background ................................................................................................................................... 1
     1.3 Scope of Works ............................................................................................................................. 1
2.      Proposed Development .................................................................................................................. 2
3.      Site Ecology - Background ............................................................................................................... 3
     3.1 Past Reporting and Site History .................................................................................................... 3
     3.2 Databases and Mapping ............................................................................................................... 3
     3.3 Commonwealth EPBC Act ............................................................................................................. 3
     3.4 State Remnant Vegetation and Flora Mapping ............................................................................ 4
     3.5 State Koala Mapping ..................................................................................................................... 5
     3.6 Council Mapping ........................................................................................................................... 6
     3.7 Potentially Occurring Threatened Species .................................................................................... 6
4.      Ecological Site Values ...................................................................................................................... 9
     4.1 Site Inspection............................................................................................................................... 9
     4.2 Site Flora and Vegetation Communities ..................................................................................... 10
     4.3 Site Fauna and Habitats .............................................................................................................. 11
     4.4 Threatened Flora......................................................................................................................... 12
     4.5 Threatened Fauna ....................................................................................................................... 13
5.      Management Recommendations ................................................................................................. 16
     5.1 Consideration of Impacts ............................................................................................................ 16
     5.2 Management Measures .............................................................................................................. 16
6.      Open Space Management............................................................................................................. 17


PHOTO PLATES ...................................................................................................................................... 19


APPENDICES .......................................................................................................................................... 22
     Attachment A – Subject Land & Surrounds ...................................................................................... 23
     Attachment B – Proposed Development (RAL)................................................................................. 24
     Attachment C – 1979 Aerial Photograph .......................................................................................... 25
     Attachment D – Flora Species List..................................................................................................... 26
     Attachment E – Fauna Species List ................................................................................................... 29
     Attachment F – Conceptual Open Space Management Plan............................................................ 30




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